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MathBrush reviews Lost at the market: "A surreal gruescript game about being lost in life and playing music" October 16, 2022 "So I have to shout out this author for being the first person to release a Gruescript game in a competition outside of Robin Johnson..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews The Tin Mug: "Meant for children but can be appreciated by adults" October 16, 2022 " The Tin Mug is a short game about working together to pull off a celebration. The protagonist is Tin Mug, and today is its birthday. The..." - See full review

kaemi reviews i wish you were dead.: "IFComp 2022: i wish you were dead. by Sofia Abarca" October 16, 2022 "Relationships are innately allegorical, a liturgy of symbols the deify manifold particulars into universal abstracts; the thousand..." - See full review

Kinetic Mouse Car reviews Star Tripper: "Rescue your sibling and dominate as starship captain" October 16, 2022 "You are blissfully working in your home lab when an urgent message from your older sibling arrives. They have been kidnapped by pirates..." - See full review

A new listing for Purpose, by Christopher M.

A new competition page: 28th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2022) created October 16, 2022

MathBrush reviews The Counsel in The Cave: "A short surreal game about graduation and finding yourself" October 15, 2022 "This brief Ink game follows two teens, May and Jason, who are graduating soon and preparing to head off to college. They stroll through..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Headlights: "Brief, custom web parser surreal game " October 15, 2022 "This is the third game by Eric Zinda with the Perplexity engine. The first two games were intended to be played with voice, I believe,..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Arborea: "A very large puzzler parser game themed around trees" October 15, 2022 "This is a very large IFComp parser game where you in a sort of simulation trying to find a 'kernel' of some sorts. The main area is a..." - See full review

A new listing for Night Train, by Evan Farris

MathBrush reviews Jungle adventure: "A custom python parser game with ascii art but fiddly interactions" October 15, 2022 "This seems exactly like the kind of game that would be made by a talented and energetic individual who had never played a text adventure..." - See full review

A new listing for By Any Magic Means, by TheMidnightMage

RadioactiveCrow reviews HOURS: "Haphazard and buggy, didn't enjoy it" October 14, 2022 "In this choice-based game you play a soldier during the Shogun era of Japan (I think? It mentions Shoguns, but also your name is Jack)..." - See full review

RadioactiveCrow reviews Glimmer: "Very short and lacking in choices" October 14, 2022 "This story, hard to call it a game since as far as I could tell the game had no real choices, is about a person (you, the PC) going..." - See full review

A new listing for Black River Prison, by Sparks

Rovarsson reviews A Walk Around the Neighborhood: "Honey, where are my keys?" October 14, 2022 "Oh! I had a lot of fun with this. A seemingly simple objective that leads to all kinds of shenanigans. Who knew getting ready to go out..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews According to Cain: "A biblical tale with a dark retelling, plus alchemical magic" October 14, 2022 "I helped beta test this game. The idea of this game is that you are part of an alchemical society that possesses the ability to travel..." - See full review

Tito Valenz reviews Let Them Eat Cake: "Who are these people???" October 14, 2022 "For a while, this game appears to be a very straightforward quest to gather ingredients for baking. I got pretty far just using common..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Princess of Vestria: "A long, well-fleshed out fantasy adventure about saving your brother" October 13, 2022 "I beta-tested this game, so I won't post a score until after IF Comp. This is one of the longest games in the competition. It's a Twine..." - See full review

RadioactiveCrow reviews Use Your Psychic Powers at Applebee's: "Fun idea worthy of multiple playthroughs" October 13, 2022 "In this choice-based game you play as a psychic marketing agent for a lousy beer company. Your job on this night is to order the latest..." - See full review

RadioactiveCrow reviews Nose Bleed: "This one just didn't work for me" October 13, 2022 "In this choice-based game you play as... someone. A non-descript person with a desk job, whose nose continually starts and stops bleeding..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Prism: "Listen to the Staticophone" October 13, 2022 "“We’re too young for nostalgia, sparrow. Go live a life worth reminiscing about.” These are the final lines of the introductory..." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews The Alchemist: "Ezekiel Throgmeister" October 13, 2022 "A mysterious light Burns all through the night In that house where some people say An alchemist dwells With books of his spells And a cat..." - See full review

tamburp reviews Magician's Voyage: "The feeling of a warm hug - wrapped up in a game." October 13, 2022 "Magician's Voyage brings together a vivid, eclectic cast and thrilling world building for a once-in-a-lifetime experience. There's..." - See full review

A new listing for The Child Miners, by Shaquele Roberts

MathBrush reviews i wish you were dead.: "Heartbreak in twine: a relationship comes to an end" October 13, 2022 "This is a brief Twine game about a painful breakup of a relationship. I have to preface this by saying that I didn't play the actual..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Through the Forest with the Beast: "A very brief RPG-style game about being marked and fleeing" October 13, 2022 "In this Twine game, you play as someone born as a Beast, someone who is marked with a strange symbol. You have to run away to a place..." - See full review

A new listing for A Space For Flavor, by Ben Holloway

TestTubeHuman reviews Skulljhabit: "The Skulldigger Life" October 13, 2022 "No idea what Dampe the gravedigger is, but "Harvest Moon meets Ligotti" means I had to play this one. (Used Firefox, but unlike the other..." - See full review

A new listing for Magician's Voyage, by A.E. Elm

A new listing for A House on A Hill, by Devin Cummings

A new listing for Witch Adventures, by Sydne Wiederspan

A new listing for Dreamland Chapter One, by Kasey Annis

A new listing for Chat on a Cold Winter's Day, by Spencer Brown

A new listing for Friends?, by MBoone

MathBrush reviews The Pool: "A short Twine game about monsters in a scientific aquarium" October 12, 2022 "This is a short, basic Twine game about an aquarium where weird monsters are in a pool and you have to run away. The game does give you..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews The Staycation: "A short texture game about horror with some emojis and pictures" October 12, 2022 "This game was listed as a 2-hour game, so I was expecting the largest Texture game ever, but it turned out to be less than 15 minutes..." - See full review

A new listing for Cheese Thief, by Shea Lutz

MathBrush reviews Traveller's Log: "Minimal python game" October 12, 2022 "I teach computer science at a high school, and we use python (and, in the past, Java). At the end of last year one student really enjoyed..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews January: "Beautiful multimedia nonlinear zombie game in grim world" October 12, 2022 "This game is self-described as more an interactive novel than a game, and that's fairly accurate. Gameplay consists of clicking different..." - See full review

Tito Valenz reviews Blood Island: "Will you become...A Final Girl???" October 12, 2022 "Blood Island by Billy Krolick I think this might have been the most entertaining entry from the 2022 comp I’ve played up to this point...." - See full review

Rovarsson reviews Esther's: "Toast!" October 12, 2022 "What can I say? I was grinning ear to ear the whole time. I went through a goal-oriented first playthrough, making choices that I felt..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews One Way Ticket: "A big surreal game about a train and a strange city" October 12, 2022 "This is a large, custom-engine choice-based game that takes place in a surreal world like the Phantom Tollbooth or a Roald Dahl book. The..." - See full review

MathBrush reviews Campus Invaders: "A very stripped-down game about aliens invading" October 12, 2022 "Marco Vallarino is an author who has entered several complex and well-regarded games in previous IFComps, including the fun Darkiss..." - See full review

A new listing for Wash the Laundry, by Shreyas Basavatia

MathBrush reviews Prism: "A fantasy steampunk game about a mysterious package and strange things" October 11, 2022 "This game is very much a story, not in the sense that it's not a game, but that it has a strong central narrative, creative setting, and..." - See full review

RadioactiveCrow reviews The Thirty Nine Steps: "Spy thriller with some fun mechanics" October 11, 2022 "In this choice-based multimedia game you play a man who wakes up on his last day of vacation in London to find a dead man in his living..." - See full review

A new listing for The Intruder, by Thomas Robbins

A new listing for Mycelium, by Kender

Tito Valenz reviews Inside: "Season of the Witch" October 11, 2022 "Inside by Ira Vlasenko In this game, you play as a witch inside the mind of another witch, and many of your choices consist of things to..." - See full review

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